{"id":6455,"date":"2011-01-12T22:42:27","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T20:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/egophobia.ro\/?p=6455"},"modified":"2011-02-02T21:26:30","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T19:26:30","slug":"poems-by-sorin-mihai-grad-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/?p=6455","title":{"rendered":"Poems by Sorin-Mihai Grad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=right>translated by Nigel Walker &#038; Alexandra S\u00e2rbu [MTTLC student]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Surrogate of Indifference <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m painting some eyes on an evening dawn<br \/>\nand I imagine that I dream<br \/>\nin blue<br \/>\nno pain tempts me<br \/>\nother than the old ones that everybody forgot in me<br \/>\nor whatever name may have the last mistake<br \/>\nin which I believed <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>the eyes adore me surprised<br \/>\nby the cruel indifference they feel at their offspring<br \/>\nthat I bear<br \/>\nby inertia<br \/>\nwill it be the only solution?<br \/>\neven so, it disgusts me and I paint them in the blood of the ashes<br \/>\nof an expired dusk<br \/>\nand in another three useless colours<br \/>\nwhich don\u2019t recall anything<br \/>\nso as to get away from their obsessive look<\/p>\n<p>too fed up with my unsympathetic goals<br \/>\n  who think they are misunderstood<br \/>\n      they feel me<br \/>\n         they cry and wipe themselves<br \/>\n            like mine occasionally do<br \/>\n               and they return to their sinister passion<br \/>\n                  why me?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reflective Surrogate <\/strong><br \/>\n<em>[you\u2019ll never walk alone]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I will always be there for you<br \/>\nI\u2019ll watch over you 24\/24<br \/>\nprotecting you from everything<br \/>\nit might disturb you<br \/>\nI will clear away the dangers<br \/>\nyou won\u2019t feel them<br \/>\nI won\u2019t let you get lost<br \/>\nI\u2019ll close my eyes when you want your space<br \/>\nI\u2019ll became invisible when you yearn for loneliness<br \/>\nbut I\u2019ll watch over you<br \/>\nI\u2019ll protect you anywhere and anytime<br \/>\nI\u2019ll be happy for your successes<br \/>\nand I\u2019ll suffer with you for the failures and mistakes<br \/>\nI won\u2019t be capable of avoiding you<br \/>\nI\u2019ll follow you wherever you may go<br \/>\nI\u2019ll compile reality as you desire<br \/>\nI\u2019ll maintain youth and strength<br \/>\njust buy me! <\/p>\n<p><strong>Advice Surrogate <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>after the great settling down<br \/>\nstarted from the dumping cart<br \/>\nyou are not allowed to write anymore<br \/>\nthat someone\u2019s IQ doesn\u2019t outgrow<br \/>\nhis shoe size, be straight<br \/>\n\u2018hey you, are you stupid?\u2019<br \/>\notherwise, you\u2019ve just unveiled yourself<br \/>\nas a poor pasture-fan lost through today \t<\/p>\n<p>if you write a love poem<br \/>\nnot so as to impress<br \/>\nlady fans or judges<br \/>\nyou obviously are retired<br \/>\nor turned inside out and believe that you can hide<br \/>\nat best you\u2019re one who has seen<br \/>\nmore than nipples<br \/>\nonly in pictures <\/p>\n<p>don\u2019t get us bored with nature<br \/>\nor any kind of impulse of admiration<br \/>\nit would be really ridiculous<br \/>\nfor anyone to remember<br \/>\nfor how long these things have been outdated<br \/>\nand so many others on top of them <\/p>\n<p>you should definitely talk about a bender<br \/>\nsomething special or at least one that lasted a week<br \/>\nnot with father, colleagues or the guys<br \/>\n\u2018cause it\u2019s more pleonastic than a drunken poet<br \/>\nit goes well with some women<br \/>\nheifer poetesses sounds well<br \/>\nwhy not with mother and grandmother<br \/>\nin taverns as much underground as possible<br \/>\nsmoky, wretched and definitely smoky <\/p>\n<p>I was saying something about the poets, if you feel<br \/>\nthey don\u2019t care about you<br \/>\ngive them something to drink<br \/>\nmost of them are alcoholics anyway<br \/>\nand it won\u2019t hurt you to get into a fight with one or two<br \/>\nfor a couple of beers<br \/>\na punch here, some blood there even more<br \/>\nhelps<br \/>\nand when you write about this<br \/>\nbe ambiguous about the end<br \/>\nyou never know<br \/>\nwho may end up in a committee<\/p>\n<p>your depictions should be as clear as possible<br \/>\ndon\u2019t censure yourself say everything<br \/>\nas you would tell a friend<br \/>\nwho\u2019s not capable of reading<br \/>\nis not even worth<br \/>\na careless yawn <\/p>\n<p>drugs? yes, you\u2019ve written some lines<br \/>\nunderneath them<br \/>\nsome guy bragged on a blog<br \/>\nthat he hit Buddhist blabbers<br \/>\nand Precambrian images<br \/>\nthrough them<br \/>\nwho where don\u2019t say<br \/>\nit\u2019s irrelevant<\/p>\n<p>you\u2019ve read, eaten, tested, seen and listened to everything<br \/>\nguide everybody who will read you<br \/>\nmention something from <em>trainspotting<\/em> or <em>fight club<\/em><br \/>\n<em>requiem for a dream<\/em> and if you have to<br \/>\ndon\u2019t forget the <em>beat<\/em> guys<br \/>\nnor the words that the shy only utter<br \/>\nin their mind <\/p>\n<p>don\u2019t say how you never forgive<br \/>\nanything<br \/>\nblonds redheads brunettes under aged sisters<br \/>\n\u2018cause you\u2019re no priest<br \/>\nthe fool who\u2019s around<br \/>\nwill always think<br \/>\na lipstick fell from a balcony<br \/>\non your coat<br \/>\nor that you left without the knickers and a sock<br \/>\nfrom home<br \/>\nso that she could strip you easily when you get back<\/p>\n<p>and since we brought this up, I can\u2019t see why you shouldn\u2019t<br \/>\nconfess that when you croak<br \/>\nas artistic as possible, how else?<br \/>\nyou will leave something to antipa museum<br \/>\nso they can finally throw away terente\u2019s<br \/>\ndamn trash*<\/p>\n<p>#<br \/>\nNote: Terente is a legendary thief who lived around Br\u0103ila, South-East Romania. He is also famous for his large penis, which is allegedly kept at Antipa Museum, a natural history museum <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>translated by Nigel Walker &#038; Alexandra S\u00e2rbu [MTTLC student] Surrogate of Indifference I\u2019m painting some eyes on an evening dawn and I imagine that I dream in blue no pain tempts me other than the old ones that everybody forgot in me or whatever name may have the last mistake in which I believed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[704,77],"tags":[629,1151,1123,580,116,312],"class_list":["post-6455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-egophobia-29-30","category-english","tag-alexandra-sarbu","tag-egophobia-29-30","tag-english","tag-nigel-walker","tag-sorin-mihai-grad","tag-translation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6DakB-1G7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6455"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6545,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6455\/revisions\/6545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}